"So that's how it is!"
Only then did Ethan realize that he really was still like a frog at the bottom of a well in this world.
In this mist world, there were always all kinds of strange abilities. There was no way he could learn about all of them. It seemed he wouldn't be able to earn the money from the ten passengers aboard his top-tier raft after all.
Caw!
Caw! Caw!
Just as Ethan was lamenting that he would have to cough up the money he'd just earned, the winged races that had been flying nonstop toward the front suddenly lost their formation. One by one, they began flying around chaotically in the sky, as if something had thrown off their rhythm.
Even the Featherguard Race, hailed as the overlords of the sky, had begun flying back.
"What's going on?"
Ethan hurriedly asked.
The Eye of Nightmare immediately fixed its gaze ahead and activated its Eye of Analysis. A moment later, it began shouting too.
"Turn back! Quick! Turn back!"
"What's going on?"
Although Ethan asked this, he still followed the Eye of Nightmare's words and hurriedly turned his top-tier raft around.
But strangely, even though the wind was clearly filling the sails, the raft continued rushing forward, completely ignoring the fact that the wind was blowing the sails in the opposite direction.
It seemed the current had grown stronger, so strong that it completely canceled out the force of the wind, and still had enough strength left to drag the raft forward.
"There's a cliff ahead!", The Eye of Nightmare's eyes were filled with terror, "And it's a cliff that meets the sea of fire!"
"What?"
Ethan was shocked to hear this.
What was going on?
Could it be that as soon as the Water Element stage ended, it connected directly to the Fire Element stage, without even giving them a break in between, just starting immediately?
Ethan was completely dumbfounded.
"Stop fucking wasting time! If the raft won't turn around, hurry up and figure out how to fly," the Eye of Nightmare shouted anxiously, "Can't you fucking fly? There's a sea of fire down there! I'm most afraid of fire! If I fall in, I'll lose everything!"
"I'll try!"
As they spoke, the raft had already been swept to the edge of the cliff.
Ethan could even hear the tremendous roar of the rushing water, which meant they were already extremely close to the cliff.
He no longer had time to waste words with the Eye of Nightmare. He hurriedly transformed himself into a pair of enormous wings, attempting to lift the entire raft.
Unfortunately, he discovered that trying to lift a hundred-square-meter raft with his wings, along with the nine passengers aboard, some meat, a large amount of drinking water, and things like orange trees, was simply a pipe dream.
Although they say that great strength can make even a brick fly, that only works if the wings are in the right proportion to the body.
For example... wings with ten times the area of the raft.
But obviously, even if Ethan stretched himself as thin as the beef in beef noodles, he still couldn't transform into a pair of wings covering a thousand square meters.
What was he supposed to do?
WHOOSH!
But before Ethan could come up with a solution, he and the raft, passengers and all, had already been swept over the edge by the enormous current.
And at the instant they plunged over the edge, Ethan finally saw an incredibly spectacular sight below.
It was... a vast ocean of lava.
When the Red Sea water cascading down from above met the ocean of lava, it rapidly evaporated, turning into a vast expanse of misty, steaming vapor.
Not only that, the ocean of lava was constantly bubbling with enormous bubbles, and from time to time, pillars of lava hundreds of meters high erupted from it, shooting straight into the sky.
No wonder those winged races had turned back.
Because... above this ocean of lava, countless pillars of lava were practically like the final stage of Super Mario. At any moment, one of those suddenly erupting lava pillars could hit you, sending you plunging into the ocean of lava, where you'd die without even leaving a corpse behind.
"Fuck!"
Ethan screamed as he plummeted wildly alongside the super raft.
He had originally planned to simply spread his wings and fly off on his own, but unfortunately, the passengers seemed to realize that their captain was about to abandon ship and run for it. They immediately grabbed his legs, trying to make him take them along.
The first person to grab Ethan's leg was naturally the Snake Beauty.
It had never cared about its dignity anyway.
If it died, it wouldn't have a face left to lose, either. So naturally, the Snake Beauty wasn't going to give up this one and only chance to survive.
With the first passenger making a move, the others naturally followed suit. They all seemed to firmly believe that as long as they held on tight to Ethan's legs, they absolutely wouldn't die!
This left Ethan unable to fly even if he wanted to.
Ethan roared, "Holy fuck! Let go, all of you! If this keeps up, we're all going to die together!"
The Snake Beauty pleaded, "Can't you fly? Then figure out a way to make all of us fly together!"
"If I fucking had a way, would I need you to tell me that?"